Projects

I have been working on a couple of projects and one of them is making a rug by doing latch hooking its going to be a big rug and it takes a lot of time but this is what it looks like so far!

Valentines Day

I love Valentines Day it is one of my favorite holidays only because that means spring is soon coming!! I also love that everything is pink, red, white and black those are my favorite colors. I was so sad to take down the Christmas window painting cause they were so good but these are my Valentines Day window paintings:
This monkey is so funny I love it!!

 A cute heart person

 A bear floating away by heart ballons

 2 hearts with an arrow through them

 I frog with hearts in his eyes

 A butterfly

 Cupid

 A bee I didnt have the right colors to finish it but I love it.

 A lion this one was my favorite and that is why I didnt finish it because I was worried about ruining it.

We celebrated valentines day early this year and we went to Village in to eat. Then we got each other presents, I got Ben a fondue set with cinnamon bears chocolate and marshmellows, and Ben got me a new Dvd player it was way needed we could watch dvds with our old Dvd player because we used it to much

New Years Resolutions

Its that time again, when we say what we want to make better or do this year. So here is my New Years Resolutions and hopefully this year I will do better at completing them.

1- Start school again

2- work up to exercising every day

3- do at least 4 hours volunter work every month

4- get a second car with 4 doors

5- Get rid of everything we dont need and get less cluttered

6- Spend more time with family. I want to be more specific because it will help me keep this goal more.

- Baby sitting my nieces and nephews more

- Having more girls nights with both sides of the family

- Go do more stuff with my siblings (in-law and blood related)

- Encourage Ben to see his dad more often

7- Go visit Becky and Andrew

8- Get Ben a better job

9- Save more money

So there they are my glorious new years resolutions. I really want to do all of these so I hope writting them down with help me more.

Christmas

This year Christmas has been a little different. We have more money than we usually do so we got Rock Band 3. We even got each other presents so it was a good one this year. I did some more window paintings that turned out so good. This is them:

Candy Cane

 Turtle sleding down hill

 A man making a snow angel

Snow man with snow falling

 Santa bringing toys

 The North Pole but I took the picture on the wrong side

 Man in a snow ball

 Kid eating snow

I got Ben a train set, he has been wanting one for a while but he hasnt wanted to buy one cause he cant really set it up cause we move a lot. Ben got me two fairies for my collection of fairies and they are my first ones so that was way exciting, even though I have to put one away because it is a Christmas fairy. I got a lot of craft stuff to do fun things with candy gift cards books a really cute wallet. Ben got a lego book, cloths, candy, ice fishing poles, and other stuff.

We got my parents a fire pit for out side. Then we got Bens mom salt and pepper shakers ones hippies kissing and the other one is monkeys hanging from a tree, we then got James some movie, and Bens dad a book.

We miss you Cole

November 29 started out as a great day. I had the day off and so did Ben so we got to hang out all day. We didnt do anything special just hung around the house. Later that night I went and baby sat my nephew Landon. After that we went to our friends Dave and Karens house to play some games. Right before we got there we got a call from my sister-in-law Becky. Ben picked up the phone and I instantly knew that something was wrong, his face went all white and his mouth was open is shock. When he got off the phone he told me that Cole his sister Lindseys husband had past away that day.
Later that night we went and seen his family and hung out there everyday for about a week with all of my husbands siblings and his parents.
It is a horriable loss and I just want to end this by saying this. We all love you Cole and hope that you have found peace and love where you are now, we will miss you!!

Thanksgiving

I love thanksgiving and this year we had a chance to go to both sides of the family. My family did there thanksgiving on Wed. the 24th. I made 2 pumpkin pies and a pecan pie. We got to my parents at 2ish and helped set up then everyone came and we had turkey and ham and then all the other good stuff then watched movies, played games, and watched football. It was lots of fun!!!

This is the two pumpkin pies.

Then I had to work on Thanksgiving until 3 pm so I couldnt go to Bens dads house but I made him a carmel pecan cheese cake and let him also have some of the pecan pie. I did this because a couple of years ago we picked up Bens dad to go to Thanksgiving and he freaked out that we didnt have pecan pie so we had to stop on the way and pick one up.

This is the pecan pie

This is the pecan pie with whip cream on top!!

Then after work we went to Bens mom and step dads house. I made an apple pie for this one.

This is the apple pie!

Food

I have been trying this make everything from scratch thing. I have been doing it for 2 weeks now. I have made Lasagna, ribs, a noodle salad, stuffed green peppers, meatloaf, taco soup, rosemary chicken noodle soup, and pizza. I am very proud of this pizza because it is my first dough that I have ever made. So it was my first time ever using yeast so I think it turned out pretty dang good. I also made the sauce for this pizza. Then on my half I have pepperonis, green peppers and olives; on Bens half has pepperonis, anchovies, and olives. I will be posting more of my cooking adventures so hopefully they will all be good stories and not bad ones.